NCIS Showrunner Says Crossovers With Spinoffs in Season 22 Are Welcome, but There’s One Problem
It still might be handled though.
Launched back in 2003, the NCIS franchise isn’t losing its ground anytime soon as it keeps expanding the original show’s universe with two more exciting spinoffs to come soon. The franchise is currently working on NCIS: Origins, starring Austin Stowell as young Leroy Jethro Gibbs, and NCIS: Tony & Ziva with the latter following Tony DiNozzo and Ziva David’s career paths and personal relationships after they both quit the flagship series.
Now that the NCIS universe is getting bigger by significantly enlarging its characters’ background stories, one of the show’s creators has revealed his personal thoughts on potential crossovers in the franchise, and there’s one seemingly big problem that doesn’t seem to be that much of a big deal to him.
Talking about the franchise’s upcoming projects, NCIS co-showrunner Steven D. Binder reflected on a possibility to intertwine all the spinoffs’ worlds with the original show’s upcoming season 22.
Binder revealed that he personally wouldn’t mind such an option, especially after Tony DiNozzo’s actor Michael Weatherly made a brief appearance in NCIS season 21 after having officially quit the series. Binder then admitted that “I don’t speak for Michael, but I have a feeling Michael would be up for anything like that. So, we’re all for it.”
Such a perspective of bringing Tony and Ziva back to the original show in its next installment does seem to have chances, though the same can’t be said about NCIS: Origins so far. The latter’s storyline will take viewers back to the 1990s when Gibbs was at the very beginning of his career in NCIS, thus the show’s time-traveling zest may cause some significant troubles.
However, the showrunner doesn’t really see a big problem here either as, according to him, “one thing that’s nice about [NCIS:] Origins is that it takes place in a different time period, so you’d need to get a little more creative if you want something to cross over from one episode to another. But that would be super-fun, too.”
It’s not yet clear how exactly the franchise will handle these potential crossovers, but fans still have plenty of time to come up with their own ideas until all three shows arrive at CBS this fall.
Source: TV Line